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Mar 8, 2022

As prices top $4 a gallon, should you consider an electric vehicle? One consideration: They’re more expensive to insure and repair. Here’s why

Posted by in categories: economics, sustainability, transportation

Tesla will sell car insurance, but electric-vehicle insurance and repairs are more expensive than for traditional cars. Here’s why.


The average cost of repairs are nearly 3% higher for a small EV versus a small internal-combustion engine car, says CCC Intelligent Solutions, a data and consulting firm that has examined the impact of EVs on the automotive, insurance and repair industries.

The same researchers found that spending on replacemet parts as a share of the overall repair costs was higher for a small EV despite that EV having 9.1 parts replaced per claim on average, versus 9.6 parts for small ICE cars. Access the full report here.

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Mar 7, 2022

Saudi prince wants Wall Street to help fund $500 billion plan for a floating Silicon Valley in the desert

Posted by in category: economics

Neom is the crown jewel of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s program to overhaul the economy of the world’s largest oil exporter.

Mar 7, 2022

How Renewable Energy Could Emerge on Top After the Pandemic

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, solar power, sustainability

Circa 2020


The short-term prospects for wind and solar power look rocky amid the economic upheaval of the coronavirus. But long term, renewables could emerge stronger than ever, especially if governments integrate support for clean energy into Covid-19 economic-recovery programs.

Mar 4, 2022

Reprogrammed bacterium turns carbon dioxide into chemicals on industrial scale

Posted by in categories: chemistry, economics, genetics, sustainability

Process achieved at industrial scale in 120 litre reactor.


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The 120 litre LanzaTech pilot plant that can convert carbon dioxide into acetone and isopropanol.

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Mar 4, 2022

I’ve Dealt With Foreign Cyberattacks. America Isn’t Ready for What’s Coming

Posted by in categories: business, cybercrime/malcode, economics, government, transportation

Yet the United States lacks an organized response. The weekly reports of ransomware attacks and data breaches make it clear that we’re losing this battle. That’s why America’s leaders must rethink the current cyberdefense system and rally around a centralized regulator to defend both citizens and the private sector against current and future attacks.

The decentralized nature of the American government does not lend itself to fighting foreign cyberthreats. Government agencies handle cyberregulation and threats in the sectors they oversee — an inefficient and ineffective way to address an issue that cuts across our entire economy. In just the past few months, the D.H.S.’s Transportation Security Agency announced new cybersecurity requirements for pipelines and railroads; the Federal Communications Commission put out its own proposal for telecommunication companies; the Securities and Exchange Commission voted on rules for investment advisers and funds; and the Federal Trade Commission threatened to legally pursue companies that fail to fix a newly detected software vulnerability found in many business applications. And on Capitol Hill, there are approximately 80 committees and subcommittees that claim jurisdiction over various aspects of cyberregulation.

These scattered efforts are unlikely to reduce, let alone stop, cybercrime.

Mar 3, 2022

Planet Awash in Waste Needs to Adopt a Circular Economy Approach to Our Trash

Posted by in categories: economics, energy

Today we can eliminate landfills by incinerating much of the garbage we produce using net-zero-emissions waste-to-energy technologies.

Mar 3, 2022

Why I Write About Hydrogen

Posted by in categories: economics, energy

Can hydrogen be a substitute for fossil fuels across the global economy? A report tabled at COP-26 provides a plan to make it so.

Mar 3, 2022

Carbon as a currency

Posted by in categories: climatology, economics, sustainability

As I have contemplated climate change over the past months, it seems as though linking currency to carbon could open the door to a more sustainable economy.

Mar 3, 2022

Is Our Planned Obsolescence Economic Model Sustainable?

Posted by in categories: economics, sustainability

Did you know that much of what we buy is built for obsolescence significantly contributing to pollution and global warming?

Mar 3, 2022

Here’s why NASA plans to let the International Space Station disintegrate into the atmosphere

Posted by in categories: economics, space

One of the greatest achievements of mankind is the International Space Station, which brings together astronauts from across the globe to cooperate on groundbreaking research. The International Space Station (ISS) will be decommissioned in 2024, following which a new generation of space stations will take its place. When more people are able to travel space, new political and economic conflicts will be inevitable.

Low-Earth orbit is becoming less important as NASA shifts its attention to transporting people to the moon and ultimately Mars. During this transition, the space agency plans to lease out space stations operated by private corporations for its astronauts to use. ISS will burn up and disintegrate in the atmosphere when the new stations are ready.

Anyone who wants to work in space at some time in the future will be forced to pick among a number of different locations. That implies that governments will not only be employing these new stations to improve their national space programs but also as lucrative economic endeavors, too.

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